The degeneration of the Budget

Parliamentary amendments are the crystallization of petty politics, an unrepublican empire of clientelism. The “parliamentarization” of the Federal Budget is under way. A decade ago, the mandatory execution of parliamentary amendments to the annual Budget Law did not amount to 3% of the general resources in terms of the federal expenditures fixed each year. Today, that amount amounts to R$ 50.4 billion, almost a quarter of the Executive's discre…